BS 5900:2012

What is this standard about?

BS 5900:2012 specifies requirements for the design, manufacture, installation, commissioning, testing, maintenance and dismantling of new permanently installed electrically powered homelifts.

Who is this standard for?

• Product designer
• Manufacturers and suppliers
• Lift installers/engineers
• Maintenance staff and facilities managers
• Testers
• Users of homelifts

Why should you use this standard?

BS 5900:2012 provides guidance and the most up-to-date recommendations for homelifts that are installed in private dwellings and are intended for the transport of persons with impaired mobility, standing or seated, with or without a wheelchair.

The specifications cover structures travelling vertically between two predefined levels along a guided path where the inclination to the vertical does not exceed 15°, where the carrier is partially enclosed and at a speed no greater than 0.15m/s.

Although this standard is intended for new homelifts, it can also be used as guidance for the refurbishment and re-installation of existing homelifts.

What’s changed since the last update?

• BS 5900:2012 has been fully revised by experts to bring it up to date with technological developments and industry best practice
• The principal changes are to update the text to meet the essential health and safety requirements of the latest Machinery Directives and Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations
• It supersedes BS 5900:1999 which is withdrawn